Sep. 14th, 2006

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If you've never read the comic series "Dawn" by Joseph Michael Linsner, I implore you to go do so. Especially if you are a man, or a woman recovering from an eating disorder, or a woman, or, um... anyone. Seriously.
http://www.linsner.com/gallery.asp
http://www.linsner.com/shop.asp?c=2
(If you can't see the images, that's okay, just click on them)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lh1.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/doorwayLOWRES.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/oceangoddessLOWRES.jpg
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/img/Dawn.jpg
http://www.linsner.com/images/covers/key2yourdreamLOWRES.jpg

Dawn is a female figure who actually has a female figure. She's not thin and waifish. She's voluptuous, she's full, she's curvaceous... and she's a goddess. Humans worship her. She's a deity of fertility, life, rebirth, and death. Her lover is Death.
Oh, and she's curvy.
She's been my subconscious role model since the late 1990's when I first picked up Linsner's comic books. He is one of the few comic book artists that actually draws women like women, instead of stick figures with balloons on their chests. He draws Dawn with an unbelievably yet believaby full figure with realistic muscle tone. Even her breasts look heavy, not weightless and impossible. Her waist is proportionate. And those hips, my gods, those hips.
Ahem.
Anyway.
The comic mixes paganism with Christianity in various ways. We have incarnations of pagan gods, but we also have incarnations of the Christian God and Devil.
http://www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Dawn.html
I think it's brilliant, and I wish I had bought all the books when I'd first gone to that comic shop near my college. I shall just have to save money so I can order from Amazon.
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My brain is sort of fuzzy today. It is raining and gray outside. I barely got work done on the book yesterday. I needed a shower and rest. My knees ache too much, but they always ache. Although, I discovered a skin cream that takes the pain away for a while. I found out that if I rub it into my hands, the muscles in my left hand unclench, and the trappings of cerebral palsy fall away for just a little while. It's a vegan cream with very organic ingredients. The cream contains tamanu oil, helichrysum oil, rose oil, and sea buckthorn oil, which might explain the CP release. Those oils are good for pain, inflammation, muscle aches, and nerve and muscle pain.

I've been reading Sandman: Book Of Dreams which is a collection of short stories inspired by, and about, Neil Gaiman's Sandman stories. Gaiman edited it, and Tori Amos wrote the afterward. The preface is one of the most brilliant essays I have ever read. It makes me think of college, and literature professors. Even if you don't buy the book, pick it up and read the preface. Here's most of it.
I read the book years ago, but I remember not liking it much because it wasn't Neil Gaiman. Now I have a deeper appreciation. After all, Gaiman would only choose the best of authors to write about his creations.
And Barbara Hambly's "Each Damp Thing" still scares the everliving crap out of me. You want nightmares, read that story. Damn, she is good. Now I want to visit Dream's palace (but I don't ever want to see that mirror).

I must get past this block. It's not distraction -- far from it, even though I browse online every night -- but it's more stagnation. They are there, in my head. I can see them. But the words will not come. The story is there, so where are the words? I have been writing this novel for seven years, and I can usually make the words crawl across the screen even if I am exhausted.
This is why I am frustrated that I cannot find answers on whether or not certain epilepsy drugs interfere with a creative person's ability to think and express words. I'm worried that the Trileptal is taking away my words. I'm not sure how to explain this to the doctors. If I do switch medications, the next drug might do the exact same thing. I need more epileptic writer friends. I need someone who understands.
Who understands here?

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